It's not for me, but my wife finally seems ready to read some stuff about Orthodoxy. As a recovering Protestant, confession can be a big issue to get past. I wanted to see what you guys would recommend as a great, preferably short, article on the topic. Not sure she's ready for an entire book yet.

Please link something here if you have a second. It would be greatly appreciated. The more reader friendly the better, but anything helps. I did google myself, but I want to make sure I send her something good to read. I wanted to check here first. Thanks!!

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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

I suppose that for a protestant it's important to know how biblical it is.

Thank you very much!! Looks like a great article. I was concerned bc it is from a RC perspective, but I think it will still work. Having all the scripture references and church fathers references all in one place is nice.

If anyone has more, please post.

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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

It might be helpful to show her the prayer used by the Priest during Confession, part of which is:

""My spiritual child, who has confessed to my humble self, I, humble and a sinner, have no power on earth to forgive sins, but God alone; yet through that divinely spoken word which came to the Apostles after the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, saying: Whoever sins they remit, they are remitted, and whoever. sins we retain, they are retained, we too are emboldened to say: Whatever you have said to my most humble self, and whatever you have not succeeded in saying, either through ignorance, or through forgetfulness, Whatever it may be: God forgive you in this present world, and in that which is to come."

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Quote from: Fr. Thomas Hopko, dystopian parable of the prodigal son

...you can imagine so-called healing services of the pigpen. The books that could be written, you know: Life in the Pigpen. How to Cope in the Pigpen. Being Happy in the Pigpen. Surviving in the Pigpen. And then there could be counselling, for people who feel unhappy in the pigpen, to try to get them to come to terms with the pigpen, and to accept the pigpen.

Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.